Lee had given Australia a good start to day four by removing opener Wasim Jaffer in the eighth over of the morning with a delivery outside off-stump which the right-hander fenced at, and edged to Gilchrist.

Rahul Dravid - as strokeless as he had been in the first innings - managed to last two and a half hours in all, but provided just 16 runs to the cause.

He was finally removed when Andrew Symonds cut a ball into his pads in front of off-stump and India were 56-2 at lunch.

Australia took three more wickets in the second session.

Sachin Tendulkar lasted just 21 balls before edging an attempted drive off Lee to Gilchrist, Laxman mistimed a forcing shot off Stuart Clark to cover, and Yuvraj Singh was lbw to a quick one from Hogg after an all-too-brief innings of five.

Gilchrist ended the day with 399 Test dimissals, setting a new Australia record, with only South Africa's current wicket-keper Mark Boucher in front of him.

The second Test begins in Sydney from 2 January, with two further matches to come.

Australia's Andrew Symonds:"I was very lucky. I was out when I was 30, given not out.

"That's cricket though. I can sit here and tell you about my bad
decisions as well, but I won't.

"There's ways to improve [decision-making], but let's not push and prod it too
much. It's a good game, it's a great game.

"Players make mistakes every day. Umpires make mistakes, too. It's how you handle them and how you keep going after those mistakes are made."